🖋️📜 How are your paleography skills?
The U.S. National Archives is looking for online volunteers to help transcribe and tag handwritten historical documents.
A great reminder that archives are also built through public collaboration.
More info @ www.archives.gov/citizen-arch...
Today we highlight Education and Progress: The Escuela de Ingenieros and Engineers’ Training in Peru (1911–1930) by Nashely Villcas.
In this, she explores how technical education in early 20th-century Peru became a space of negotiation between empire and nation.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
📖Have you checked the book review section of the latest issue of the British Journal for the History of Science? It's a good place to start if you're looking for the next addition to your library.
📣 Looking forward to the 20th National Seminar on the History of Science and Technology organized by the Brazilian Society for the History of Science in July in Brazil. You can still enroll in minicourses.
More info @ www.20snhct.sbhc.org.br/site/capa
#HistoryOfScience #HistoryOfTechnology #Brazil
📖 How about we begin the week reading something from SCIEMP's public Zotero library?
On this paper, Fa-ti Fan discusses the concepts of cultural borderlands and scientific imperialism, and how they can be used in the analysis of cross-cultural encounters in field sciences.
doi.org/10.1215/s122...
📣Open call: Forum on the Conceptual History of Technology
The Journal of the History of Ideas Blog is seeking essays that discuss the concept of technology, intersecting intellectual history and the history of technology.
Calls are open until 7 May
More info @ www.jhiblog.org/2026/03/18/c...
📣 Call for papers: Public Humanities (Cambridge) is organising a special Museum Issue. They invite reflections on museums as sites where research, public culture, material objects, politics, ethics, and theory meet.
🗓️ Deadline: 1 June 2026
More information at www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
⏳ The call is open until 31 August 2026.
If you work on the material or visual history of science, technology, or medicine, this is one to keep on your radar 👀
More information: www.societastoriadellascienza.it/index.php/it...
#CallForPapers #Prize 🧵 4/4
🏆 The winner of the 2026 Nuncius Prize will receive:
💶 €500 cash prize
🌐 Open-access publication in Nuncius
There will also be 3 honourable mentions, each receiving €100 in Brill book tokens. 🧵 3/4
#EarlyCareerResearch #AcademicOpportunities
Published by Brill under the Museo Galileo in Florence, Nuncius is an international journal devoted to the material and visual culture of science — from instruments and collections to images, experimental settings, and the relations between science and art. 🧵 2/4
#HistoryOfScience #MaterialCulture
📣 Opportunity for graduate students and early career scholars!
The 2026 Nuncius Essay Award is now open for submissions. The prize recognises the best original essay on the material and visual history of science, technology, and medicine.
Want to know more? 👇
#ScienceAndEmpire #HistoryOfScience
🎓 Need funding for dissertation research travel?
The History of Science Society is offering individual grants of up to US$2,500 for graduate student members to work in archives, laboratories, and field sites.
You can apply until March 31 - there's still time!
hssonline.org/general/cust...
🗣️💬 Let's get a conversation started: if you were introducing a student to the history of science and empire with just one text, what would you choose?
We'll begin highlighting our secretary Daniel Gamito-Marques's own Science for Competition among Powers: doi.org/10.1002/bewi...
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Did you know SCIEMP has a newsletter? 📰✉️
By subscribing you will receive news on calls for papers, conferences, fellowships, jobs, and prizes. We also have a special section called microblogs where members share their latest publications with the community.
Join @ scienceandempire.com/highlights/
We'll be looking forward to seeing you there! 😀
And soon we'll post more information on our four panels here
📣 In the coming weeks we'll give more information about the conference, so stay tuned and follow for updates! 👀
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What ties it all together?
A shared interest in the environmental dimensions of imperial science.
🌱 How were landscapes, species, and bodies transformed by colonial knowledge-making?
⏳ And what legacies are still with us today?
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Our symposium: Science and Empire in the Anthropocene: Towards an Environmental Shift.
🌍 In 4 sessions, 16 scholars from across the world will discuss science, empire, and environment. From the Amazon rainforest to the Iberian Peninsula, from colonial India and Manchuria to postcolonial Africa 🧵2/4
📢 SCIEMP is going to Edinburgh!
Did you know we’re hosting a symposium at the joint meeting of the History of Science Society/European Society for the History of Science?
Supported by the British Society for the History of Science, the conference takes place in Scotland from 13 - 16 July 2026 🧵1/4
Looking for key readings on science and empire? SCIEMP's shared Zotero library brings together references on the histories of science, technology, medicine, and empire. It's a useful resource for researchers, students, and anyone interested in the field. Find it on: www.zotero.org/groups/61773...
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⚠️ Don't miss out on two postdoc opportunities on @alvesduarte.bsky.social's Wellcome Trust-funded project "How Did Infectious Diseases Become Wild?: Plague, Yellow Fever, and Disease Ecology in the Brazilian Hinterland (1920-1975)" at KCL. More information on the link: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/134807-...
Looking forward to: Seeing the Other Empire: British Travel Writing and Imperial Rivalry in Europe and the Near East, 1783-1914, a conference organised at the University of Strasbourg. The call for papers is still open. More information on: search.unistra.fr/agenda/seein...
Today we highlight Postcolonial and Decolonial Historiography of Science by Silvia Figueirôa, Professor at State University of Campinas, Brazil, 1st Vice-President of the Division of History of Science and Technology (DHST/IUHPST), and former SCIEMP President.
link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...
✉️The November 2025 issue of the SCIEMP newsletter is out! Subscribe and don't miss out on all the news, fellowships, jobs, calls for papers, and much more that we will share monthly. Subscribe on scienceandempire.com/highlights/
✳️ Call for papers!
You can find all the information on the SCIEMP website:
scienceandempire.com/news-and-eve...
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